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BROOCH
Unique ID: OXON-CB339D
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy possible developed T-shaped brooch dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD.
Only one wing and a portion of the vertical body only remain. The wing is a cylindrical tube with an open end. There is a vertical slot cut where the middle of the wings would have been to accommodate a hinged pin, now lost.
The bow projects from the front of the wings and is sun-rectangular in cross section. Its front has two collars extending from the top of the wings to part way down its length. The main body of the bow has a small triangular cell which may have held enamel although no trace of this or cement now survives.
The brooch is an even green colour.
The brooch is 18.7mm long, 15.9mm wide, and weighs 3.68 grams.
Similar examples to this brooch illustrated by Hattat (2000: 302) and Mackreth (2011: 63, 66, 71) No. 12791, 2775 and 2188. Hattat describes these as Wilsford T-shaped brooches while Mackreth terms them Colchester derivative hinged brooches. Both date this form to the end of the 1st century AD and the 2nd century. It is perhaps more apt to describe this as a developed T-shaped which Bayley and Butcher (2004:167) suggest dated to c. AD 75-150.
Notes:
Oxfordshire PAS Rally Record Sheet No: Y374d
Class:
Developed T-shaped, Wilsford
Sub class: Mackreth (2011) CD H 12.a
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.73 mm
Width: 15.89 mm
Weight: 3.68 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 15th September 2019 - Sunday 15th September 2019
Rally details.
This object was found at Detectival 2019
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: West Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Cornbury and Wychwood (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP3118
Four figure Latitude: 51.85972964
Four figure longitude: -1.55126069
1:25K map: SP3118
1:10K map: SP31NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. | 2004 | Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection | London | The Society of Antiquaries | |||
| Hattatt, R. | 2000 | A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches | Oxford | Oxbow Books | |||
| Mackreth, D.F. | 2011 | Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain | Oxford | Oxbow Books |
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